The Portland daily press., 1887-10-27
CHANDLER MAKES PREDICTIONS
The Future Of New HampshIre,s
Troublesome Railroads.
Things the Boston & Maine Can and
Cannot Do.
Short Leases Instead OF Compacts
for Ninety-Nine Years.

CONCORD, N. H., Oct. Ex-senator Chand-
Ter printed another long editorial in the Moni
tor last night in which he gives history of
railroad legislation and operations in the
in the state and concludes by giving his idea
of the probabilities and prospect of the fu-
ture. substantially as follows:
1. The Boston & Maine and Boston &,
Lowell railroads will continue to control the
Manchester & Lawrence. 2. They can con-
tinue to control the Northern railroad if the
owners of the latter for third time desire
to be so controlled, not by 80 years lease.
but by short lease not obnoxious to the de-
cision of the court. 8. They will lose the
Boston, Concord & Montreal road. The de-
feat of the Hazen bill carries down with it
the clause which it was hoped might operate
retroactively to make valid the lease of the
Montreal to the Lowell. The Montrea. will
90 where its present owners desire to place
It. T. The Concord railroad will obtain the
Boston, Concord & Montreal road, not for 90
years. but upon short lease.
Inc results above predicted are different
from those which would have happened if
the Hazen hill had become a law only in this
particular, that the leases of the Northern
to the Lowell and of the Montreal to the
Concord will be short leases, for five years or
thereabouts, instead of for 90 years.
What the public has realized from the de-
feat of the Hazen bill is the right to stop go
year leases and compel the roads to make
leases only for five years or other short
periods. With 99-year leases the public would
have had the right to limit fares and freghts
and to have 50O-mile mileage tickets, as pro-
vided in the HaZen bill. With short leases
the public twill NOT. have these rights unless
the legislature establishes them by separate
laws, as it is to be hoped it will do. 1t seems
clear, therefore, on the whole, that there
Will be, for the present, no difference in the
actual control of our New Hampshire roads
occasioned by the defeat Of the Hazen bill
Inc Inc SITUATION Is favorable In one respect;
The Boston d Maine and Boston & Lowell
can show how cheaply and satisfactorily
they can serve the New Hampshire public
in the operation of the Manchester & Law
renee, and the Northern and Concord g.
Claremont railroads. The Concord rail-
abundant facilities at new rates over
It's present lines and those of the
Boston, Concord d MontreallC Company, when
it gets them. The people can watch the ser
vice by the two lines, compare the manage
ment of one combination with that of the
other, .and decide which they prefer. One
danger is, however, to be constantly feared
that the Boston d Maine and Boston & Low
ell syndicate will buy the control of the Con-
cord d Montreal combination. They now own
ffOVo oHdACo VI OOnCUIu SIUck III the treasury
of the Northern Railroad, and control 900
shares more belonging to the estate of j. W.
johnson, whose administrator Is Mr.. G. A.
Sinclair. If they should, all the evils pre-
dlcted by the opponents of theHaZen bill may
beset and overrun the State.
The SoIons still at 1t.
In the New Hampshire House this fore
noon it was stated that the bribery investi-
CATION before the judiciary committee had
been substantially completed, and vote was
passed to PRINT 5000 copies of the testimony
taken.
An amendment preventing an increase of
the fares and freights existing October 1, 1887
on the Boston and Maine, and its leased lines
in New Hampshire, and on the Manchester
and Lawrence, and fixing the maximum local
passender tarif at cents per mile was offered
by Mr.. Atherton, of Nashua. The House
however, before any action was
taken on the amendment.
This afternoon, the bill ratifying and con-
trming the lease of the Manchester and Law
renee to the Boston and Maine for fifty years
was passed under suspension of the rules
without amendment.
Mr.. Quimby, of Guilford, then introduced
under a suspension of the rules, bill con-
tanning provisions regulating the fares and
Ireights as contained in the HaZen bill, and
The same passed without debate.
In the Senate this morning the motion for
1nal adjournment next Saturday noon was
defeated. Senator Richards asked leave to
Introduce bill authorizing the Boston and
Maine to purchase the franchise and property
Of the Eastern Railroad Company and the
Eastern Railroad in New Hampshire, but
sufficient number of Senators not voting to
suspend the rules the bill was not introduced.
q Mr.: Quimby, of Guilford, introduced bill
stlpulating that all the railroads in the State,
excepting the Portland and Ogdensburg and
the lines operated for summer passenger
traffic, shall sell thousand mile mileage tick
cts, unlimited at 2 cents mile provided
that the fares and freights existing October
shall not be increased without the consent of
the Legislature, and fixing the maximum To-
cal passenger tariff at cents a mile on all
lines excepting the Whitefeld and jefferson
and Wing road; fixes the local passenger
tariff on the Concord, Nashua and Lowell,
and Lawrence, and Boston and
Maine, between Atkinson and Rollinsford,
inclusive, at cents a mile minimum charge:
for single fare, cents.
The Senate ratified the lease of the Man
chester and Lawrence.